Week of Events
2025 Master Irrigator Program: San Luis Valley
Colorado Master Irrigator is a comprehensive educational course available to irrigators. Colorado Master Irrigator's goal is to equip producers with the knowledge they need to evaluate the potential pros, cons, costs, and methods to help pay for/recoup costs of implementing different tools and strategies to improve water and energy use efficiency and conservation, soil health,…
Spring 2025 Semester Low-Tech Restoration Workshop Series
The purpose of the Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration (LT-PBR) workshop series is to provide restoration practitioners with guidelines for implementing a subset of low-tech tools—namely beaver dam analogues (BDAs) and post-assisted log structures (PALS)—for initiating process-based restoration in structurally-starved riverscapes. Utah State University's Restoration Consortium will describe ‘low-tech process-based restoration’ (LT-PBR) as a practice of using…
Beneath Our Feet: Are groundwater easements a solution for the west?
Beneath Our Feet: Are groundwater easements a solution for the west?
https://youtu.be/8ZSrMTZHmqE The second webinar of WLA’s 2025 Water and Working Lands Webinar series will explore the topic of groundwater easements as a potential solution for addressing groundwater shortages. We’ll hear how these programs have been designed, implemented, and received by select communities, and if groundwater easements really can become an effective tool in combating water…
Working Hands, Wild Lands – Mini documentary film festival
Working Hands, Wild Lands – Mini documentary film festival
Join Western Landowners Alliance for an in-person conservation-minded documentary film festival at Patagonia Denver! We will be highlighting three films: Against the Herd Almost a century of poorly managed grazing degraded millions of acres of America’s public lands. But Cottonwood Ranch has discovered that cattle can actually be the key to restoring our rangelands. Now…
Elemental Idaho Series
Elemental Idaho Series
Dr. Emily Wakild (BSU's Andrus Center) discusses the history and future of Idaho recreation with Gretchen Hyde (Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission), and John Robison (Idaho Conservation League).
We'll learn about the Ridge to Rivers trail system, the Owyhee Travel Management Plan, and everything in between!